>> jeff: tonight, high drama: skydiver felix baumgartner jumped from 24 miles up and landed safely. mark strassmann on the extraordinary ten-minute flight. >> i think the most exciting moment was when i was standing outside on top of the world. >> jeff: he served 30 years in the senate and was rarely out of the spotlight. sharyl attkisson with a look back at the life of arlen spector, who died today. election day is about more than just the presidency; in three states, a chance to vote on the recreational use of marijuana. barry petersen reports. and shuttle "endeavour," a late arrival at its new home. ben tracy on the slow crawl through the streets of los angeles. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> jeff: and good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor. in the sky over new mexico today a man jumped from 24 miles up and broke the sound barrier on the way down. a first. felix baumgartner broke that barrier by more than 100 miles an hour. then landed with ease. with details here's mark strassmann. >> felix baumgartner climbed into the strat sphere more than 24 miles above new mention dekort. he was about to become a human missile and plunge farther and faster in freefall than anyone in history. >> everything is in the green, doing great. >> reporter: his ascent had lasted two and a half hours. in a capsule hoisted by a 55 story helium balloon rising 1,000 feet a minute. the only hitch, baumgartner's viser fogged up when his helmet's heater stopped working. >> this is getting serious, joe. >> i do not think i have safe heating. >> reporter: joe kittinger in mission control was the

voice in baumgartner's here. >> there it is, there is the world out there. >> reporter: in 1960 kittinger then an air force captain set the freefall record with a dive from 102,000 feet. he spent four years helping train baumgartner for this moment. the plunge from 128,000 feet. >> i wish you could see what i can see. >> reporter: within 30 seconds baumgartner's preliminary speed topped out at 833 miles per hour. the first human in freefall to break the speed of sound. but there was trouble and drama. for about 10 seconds he went into a potentially catastrophic flat spin, spinning like a top. he regained control, back in a head droinled position to the relief of everyone in mission control. history fall lasted four minutes and 19 seconds, more than one minute short of kittinger's record before his chute opened on schedule. no olympic gymnast has ever stuck a landing quite like this. >> a new world record

holder. >> i was love getting in the same spot joe kittinger, and there a young guy sitting next to me asking advice because he wants to break my record. >> reporter: felix baumgartner, the man who fell to earth today like no one ever has. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> jeff: coincidentally on this day in 1947 a 24-year-old american test pilot named chuck yeager became the first person who break the sound barrier in a plane, a bell x-1 experimental. >> in campaign 2012 now both president obama and mitt romney are preparing for tuesday's second presidential debate. no fund-raisers, no major appearance. mostly study. while that takes place republicans continue hammering the president on the administration's handling of the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. jan crawford is in washington and has more on that, jan? >> well, jeff to say that the stakes are high in tuesday's town hall debate could well be an

understatement. the president's performance of course in that first debate was widely criticized. romney surged in the polls and o now holds a slight lead over the president. >> under pressure to turn it around mr. obama will have to defend his response to last monday's attack in benghazi. which killed four americans including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. the administration is under increasing criticism for initially refusing to call the attacks terrorism. in an exchange with o bob schieffer on face the nation senator lindsey graham a senior member of the senate arms services committee was harsh. >> i think they have been misleading us but it finally caught up with us. >> schieffer: that is a very serious charge that you have just leveled, senator graham. are you saying that the administration deliberately mislead the american people to make it look as if terrorism is not as much of a threat as apparently it is? >> either they are misleading the american

people or incredibly incompetent they are very political when it comes to foreign policy. when something goes bad, they deny, they deceive and they delay. >> reporter: libya became an issue last week on the campaign trail, especially after thursday's vice presidential debate when joe biden said the white house wasn't informed of multiple requests for more security at the consullate. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security. >> reporter: obama campaign advisor david axelrod tried to deflect criticism sunday by pointing the finger at romney. >> i can tell you that from the beginning of this issue, before any facts were known he was cravenly trying to exploit it. and look that's politics. >> reporter: now for much of the past month in his campaign rallies romney hasn't really been hitting the administration's evolving response to those attacks although he did at the end of the past week. and again today the schram ambassador's father weighed in telling bloomberg news in a phone interview, and this is quote, it would be really abhorrent to make this into a came pin issue. jeff?

>> jeff: jan crawford, thank you. >> joining us is our political director john dickerson in washington. john, a lot of discussion of benghazi right now. on election day how much do voters typically factor in foreign policy? >> well, in this election where voters have told us consistently that they care the most about jobs and the economy, that's likely to be the big issue on everybody's mind. the political danger for the president, though, about the libya issue is that the romney campaign is trying to attach it to a larger critique of this administration. that on issues from libya to the economy, they are out of ideas. that they are not on the case that they've not been showing leadership. so in that way it's a way for romney to make a case about the administration as a whole even though it's on an issue that will not be front of mind for voters. >> jeff: let's talk about the electoral college math if we could for a moment watch. does the math look like right now for each candidate? >> the math favors president obama at the start there are more states that he is

likely to inin his column than for mitt romney. then when you look at the battleground states, the president has more pathways to get to that magical number of 270. so for example, he could lose florida, ohio and virginia to mitt romney and still there are enough battleground states that he could cobble together that 270 number. for mitt romney, really, things have been going better recently this colorado and florida. that helps him erase the president's advantage in the electoral college. so it all comes down to ohio. romney has been there four out of the last five days. and the president is paying close attention to the 18 electoral votes there. so we're at another election in which we're all talking about ohio. >> jeff: john dickerson, thank you. long time pennsylvania senator arlen spector at the end of his career switched sides from republican to democrat died today at the age of 82. the cause of death was cancer. a disease he had been fighting for years. sharyl attkisson has more.

>> reporter: during most of his 30 years in the senate, arlen spector was best known as a moderate republican. serving on the powerful senate ju dish area committee where he is remembered for his opposition to conservative supreme court nominee robert work in 1987. >> and the concern i have is where is the predictable in judge work. >> reporter: and his aggressive questioning of anita hill during the supreme court nomination learing for clarence thomas in 1991. >> well, when you say a number of things might occur, what sort of things. >> he was a ranking member who quickly climbed the political ranks to become pennsylvania's longest serving senator. >> i won the selection because of my attention to pennsylvania over 24 years. >> reporter: even before coming to congress arlen specific her already made a name for himself as philadelphia's district attorney. gaining national attention in the 1960s when he served on the warren commission which investigated the kennedy a sass anything. and he's credited with

co-authoring the single bullet theory. first elected to the senate in 1980 specter won five terms until he announced he was switching parties in 2009. >> as the republican party has moved farther and farther to the right, i have found myself increasingly at odds with the republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the democratic party. >> reporter: two years later he ran for re-election as a democrat and lost in the primary. putting an end to his long-standing political career and jump-starting his return to his other love, the law and stand-up comedy. he recently a peered at caroline's comedy club. >> i have been in the senate for 30 years, practicing comedy. >> reporter: during his time in congress, his biggest battle was cancer. he overcame a brain tumor,

non-hodgkin's lymphoma and was recently diagnosed with a new form of the deadly disease which he confirmed in a statement. >> i'm battling cancer, he said. it's another battle i intend to win. sharyl attkisson, cbs news, washington. >> jeff: in pakistan growing demonstrations in support of the 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded by the taliban. tens of thousands rallied in karachi today for malala yousufzai, shot on her way home from school five days ago. she remains in critical condition tonight but doctors say malala did breathe on her own today when they briefly removed her ventilator. yesterday she moved her limbs. the united arab emirates is sending a plane outfitted as an air ambulance if doctors send her abroad for treatment. >> relations between neighbors turkey and syria are growing more tense tonight with tur cotoday closing its airspace to all syrian aircraft. a human-rights group accuse the assad government of using cluster bombs in its fight against the rebels. those weapons are widely

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and forcing 4200 to abandon ship. the final salvage operations begin later this week as the captain heads to court charged with manslaughter. allen pizzey tells us the captain also has a suit of his own. >> reporter: the captain who turned the costa concordia into this is suing the owners for wrongful dismissal. given that the salvage operation will cost $300 million, he's unlikely to be getting if i back pay. by the end of the coming week there will be more than 450 workers at the site including 100 divers. anchor points are being drilled into the sea bed to hold the enormous chains that will be used to roll the ship off the rocks where she is lodged. buoyancy tanks 11 stories high will be welded on to the sides. the rock that was stuck in the hole when the ship hit the reeve has been removed. >> the total was about 95 tons of rock that we took out. we took it out in three sections. so quite a large rock. >> 95 tons of rock was stuck inside of that ship. >> yeah, just the one part

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on the front lines of an effort to legalize marijuana for recreational use. it's a question for voters there in two other states, washington and oregon. in colorado barry petersen reports polls show there is a good chance voters will say yes. >> so this is jezebel's. >> wanda jamesed having her new denver restaurant. she and her husband scott once ran a marijuana dispensary and marketed foods with marijuana in them. now they're active supporters of a state constitutional amendment to make it legal in colorado for adults over 21 to possess one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants for personal use. >> if you would like to come home and have a joint and relax with your wife, or your husband, i see absolutely no issue with that whatsoever. there are more ways to relax than just having someone have a can of coors or a jim beam. >> colorado is already one of 17 states that allow marijuana for medical use well more than 500 dispensaries and carefully monitored grower, the

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is about. to become the marijuana capital of the united states. state representative jonathan singer supports the idea of treating marijuana like alcohol. a former drug counselor, singer has seen the effects of drug abuse but he says most people who use marijuana do so responsibly. >> marijuana has the potential just like any other drug to hurt people and people need to make that informed decision. but this is not cocaine. this is not meth this is not heroin. >> reporter: a win here could boost legallization efforts elsewhere, where a loss within a sign that marijuana use is one right many americans are not willing to grant. barry petersen, cbs news, denver. >> jeff: we have today's updated numbers from federal health officials on the meningitis outbreak. there are now more than 200 victims in 14 states. 15 people who received the tainted steroid injections have died. in north carolina health officials are trying to find the source of an e. coli

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>> jeff: traffic in los >> traffic in los angeles can be notoriously difficult. and it seem those vehicle is exempt. even one that weighs 75 tons and has traveled through space. ben tracy tonight on the producting final procession of endeavor. >> reporter: apparently endeavor was struggling with the idea of retirement. when it made its triumphant entrance in the california science center today, it was more than 15 hours late. even for a commute in los angeles, this was a whopper. it took the shuttle more than 60 hours to complete the 12 mile route from will. lax to the museum. on friday it snuck a late night look at a doughnut shop and turned the 4 o-- 405 into a shuttle crossing. >> it is amazing technology,

history, adventure. >> reporter: when endeavor arrived at the l.a. forum yesterday morning it was more than an hour ahead of schedule. yet then nearly everything seemed to slow the shuttle's roll. >> i actually thought i missed it yesterday. when this morning i turned on the news and it was still grounded, i thought oh, yeah, we're going see it. >> reporter: the growing crowd some suffering dehydration in the hot sun got in the way. endeavor's 78 foot wingspan nearly clipped buildings and trees, moving at just one-mile-per-hour t wasn't even giving molasses a run for its money. >> the city had already cut down 400 trees and raised 100 power lines to give the five story shuttle enough room. yet dodging space junk is apparently easier than ducking power polls. >> wow. >> already high wires had to be lifted while even more trees were trimmed. the shuttle lost more time when a scheduled maintenance stop stretched from two hours to more than five. yet then came the final stretch, the shuttle shuffle down martin luther king boulevard, navigating historic pine trees planted

in honor of the civil rights leader. in a city where three days of street closureses are as welcome as a bad rash, remarkably all of l.a. seemed to rally behind this lengthy shuttle endeavour. >> and it arrived here at the science center without a single scratch. now after 123 million miles in orbit and 12 very challenging ones here on earth, its final mission is now complete. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news, in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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